Artzeinu ○ www.artzeinu.org ○ Vol. 19 No. 651 ○ November 7, 2020

Israel rivetted by US Tel Hashomer and Hadassah Medical Mendelblit replied in response that he Center in Jerusalem, Israel Hayom would support the proposal. p Election Day drama reports. Meanwhile, the so-called coronavirus Israelis have been closely watching slow- The first two volunteers to receive the cabinet approved on Wednesday the burning US election results with intense vaccine were Segev Harel, 26, of Kibbutz reopening of street shops next week. The interest, many of them seeing the outcome Sde Nehemia, and Anar Ottolenghi, 34, of move is expected to take effect on as likely to deeply affect their own future, Moshav Talalim. Sunday. The Times of Israel reports. Israel's death toll from coronavirus since UN resolution ignores TV channels, radio stations and news the start of the pandemic stood at 2,541 Jewish ties to Temple Mount outlets have been broadcasting the returns last Sunday, while a total of 301,624 with all the breathlessness of American people has contracted the virus but Some 139 United Nations countries cable news throughout the night and day, recovered. approved a resolution on Thursday that spoke of the Temple Mount solely as an even with the time difference forcing There were 10,370 active or symptomatic Islamic holy site, by referencing it only by Israelis to pull an all-nighter in order to cases throughout Israel last Sunday, 735 its Muslim name of al-Haram al-Sharif, watch the initial results roll in. of whom were hospitalized. Of all The Jerusalem Post reports. Unlike people in much of the rest of the hospitalized patients, 415 were listed in world, Israelis are generally supportive of serious condition and 171 were on It was one of seven pro-Palestinian, anti- US President Donald Trump, according to ventilators. Israel resolutions that the UN General opinion polls. Trump’s decisions to Assembly's Fourth Committee in New recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Corona chief proposes using York passed on Wednesday. leave the Iran deal and help broker CCTV to track mask-wearing The resolution that spoke of Jerusalem treaties with Gulf countries have brought Outgoing coronavirus commissioner included language that referenced the link him accolades from even those on the Professor Ronni Gamzu on Wednesday of all three monotheistic religions to center-left of Israel’s political spectrum. proposed using urban security camera Jerusalem. The resolution, in its language, At the same time, many have expressed grids to review the population's adherence spoke of Jerusalem as “occupied” only in alarm at Trump’s reluctance to condemn to Health Ministry guidelines mandating reference to east Jerusalem where the white supremacists and see his presidency wearing face masks outside, Israel Hayom Temple Mount is located. as having given a boost to anti-Semites. reports. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Hundreds of thousands of US citizens are The suggestion, made during a meeting of Erdan told the committee that the thought to live in the Holy Land and both the so-called coronavirus cabinet, was resolution “completely ignores any link the Republicans and Democrats have initially disqualified by Attorney General between the Jewish people and the branch offices in Israel, which ran their Avichai Mendelblit, who, according to the Temple Mount – our holiest site. This is a own get-out-the-vote campaign in the Walla news website, argued, “We are not disgrace. The audacious attempt to rewrite lead-up to Tuesday's vote. going to complicate the situation with a history will not change the indisputable One estimate calculated that 150,000 camera array or people informing on one fact that the Jewish connection to the city absentee ballots were cast by US citizens another.” of Jerusalem dates back thousands of years.” living in Israel. Enforcement of the guidelines lies with Human trials of possible the Israel Police that they are only ones Eight countries besides Israel voted “who have the authority to hand out against the Jerusalem resolution, Israeli COVID vaccine begins fines,” he said. including Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Israel's first clinical human trials of the Gamzu then clarified that the purpose of Nauru and the United States. Another 16 Brilife COVID vaccine contender using CCTV footage for conducting abstained. Some of those that abstained, developed by the Israel Institute began at surveys and not for fines – to which such as the Czech Republic, Honduras, Police interrogate senior “Remember, that intellectual property Serbia and Malawi, have spoken of assets are very valuable to companies relocating their embassies to Jerusalem, a Likud lawmaker and private entrepreneurs, so registering move that designates recognition of theCoalition Chairman Miki Zohar was patents or trademarks is a critical step in Israeli sovereignty over at least western interrogated by police for alleged a company's ability to leverage its Jerusalem. The Dominican Republican extortion, Israel Hayom reported activity and secure a major advantage in and Brazil, which has said they would Thursday. competitive markets.” weigh relocating its embassy to Zohar was questioned by Israel Police First in space Jerusalem, supported the resolution. over controversial comments made during Tel Aviv University (TAU) is set to an interview with Israeli radio station Netanyahu to High Court: launch its own satellite into space early 130.fm several weeks ago that were next year to conduct a series of AG can’t shackle my law widely interpreted as a subliminal threat experiments while in orbit, the first such enforcement appointments against Attorney General Avichai project undertaken by an Israeli Mendelblit. Zohar denied the claim. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu academic institution, No Camels reports. notified the High Court of Justice During that interview, Zohar, who is The satellite, dubbed the TAU-SAT1, is Thursday that he rejects Attorney General considered one of Prime Minister a nanosatellite developed, assembled, Avichai Mandelblit’s position that bars Benjamin Netanyahu's most fervent and tested at the new Nanosatellite the premier from making law enforcement supporters, warned that “if Mendelblit Center at TAU. The satellite will conduct appointments due to conflicts of interest doesn't resign or rescind the indictments” research experiments including stemming from the criminal charges against Netanyahu, “there will be an measuring cosmic radiation in space. against him, The Times of Israel reports. earthquake.” He also implied that there The satellite is currently undergoing pre- The move set up a possible showdown were yet-to-be-aired recordings of flight testing at the Japanese space between Netanyahu and his top legal Mendelblit that could presumably cast agency JAXA, after which it will be sent official, who has charged the premier in him in a negative light, like recordings to the United States to hitch a ride three criminal cases. It came hours after a that had been released just before the sometime in early 2021 on a NASA and top Netanyahu ally was interrogated by interview. Northrop Grumman resupply spacecraft police on suspicion of attempting to “This investigation is beyond the pale, destined for the International Space blackmail Mandelblit into resigning. against a public official from the Right,” Station. According to Haaretz, Mandelblit plans Zohar said. Once at the station, the TAU-SAT1 will on recommending that Netanyahu step Patent applications jump be released into a low-earth orbit nearly down as premier if he doesn’t agree to the The coronavirus pandemic 250 miles above the Earth. attorney general’s conflict of interest notwithstanding, Israel saw an increase in arrangement barring him from appointing Dr. Ofer Amrani, head of Tel Aviv the number of patent applications filed key law enforcement officials such as University’s miniature satellite lab, said from March-August 2020 compared to the police chief and state prosecutor. the TAU-SAT1 is a nanosatellite of the same period of 2019, Israel Hayom CubeSat variety, a type of miniaturized “The law does not grant the attorney reports. satellite for space research that is made general the authority to determine conflict During that period, 4.093 patent up of many small cubic units, each of of interest on a particular issue,” applications were filed, an increase of which has a mass of around 3 lbs.. Netanyahu’s attorneys wrote on his 5.3% compared to the same period in behalf, claiming that only the prime Amrani said the satellite’s “dimensions 2019. minister himself is authorized to make are … the size of a shoebox.” such a determination. “The uptick in patent registration during COVID is not surprising,” said Ariel The unity government agreement between Dubinsky, an intellectual property lawyer. Netanyahu’s Likud and Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White gave each party a veto on key senior appointments. Israel has been without a confirmed police chief for years. For the last many months Mandelblit has filled in as acting state prosecutor, with the government refusing to appoint a replacement. Mandelblit’s Artzeinu, online at www.artzeinu.org, is published weekly by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 E. 85th Street, term is slated to end next year. New York, NY 10028. To get Artzeinu in your shul, email [email protected]. The Artzeinu team: Amichai Gelman, Bennett R. 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